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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How fast can the Nautilus go?
(a) speeds up to fifty miles per hour
(b) about as fast as a frigate
(c) speeds up to 100 miles per hour
(d) about thirty miles per hour

2. How does Nemo propose to get them from the Red Sea into the Mediterranean?
(a) by making the Nautilus fly
(b) through what he calls it the Arabian Tunnel
(c) by going through the Suez Canal
(d) by going around the southern tip of Africa

3. Why does Aronnax have trouble falling asleep after the rescue?
(a) He has too many troubling thoughts.
(b) He cannot sleep with the lights on.
(c) He always suffers from insomnia.
(d) He has cramps from being in the cold water.

4. What does Ned do as the shark is about to kill Captain Nemo?
(a) He faints.
(b) He kills the shark with his harpoon.
(c) He laughs and watches.
(d) He panicks and swims for the Nautilus.

5. What does Aronnax discover in Nemo's library?
(a) current newspapers
(b) twelve thousand books
(c) Nemo's journals
(d) a wet bar

6. What is Aronnax beginning to think about Nemo?
(a) that he is mentally deranged and a very dangerous man
(b) that Captain Nemo is filled with hate and seeking revenge
(c) that he is actually a benevolent man trying to save the oceans
(d) that he is dying of some horrible disease

7. What artifact does Nemo show Aronnax that he had recovered from the sea?
(a) a box of Byzantine jewelry
(b) a marble inscription from Atlantis
(c) a statue of the virgin Mary
(d) a tin box with papers of Commander La Perouse

8. What animal does Ned harpoon along the Arabian coast?
(a) a large sea otter
(b) a dugong
(c) a crocodile
(d) an oryx

9. What does Aronnax find in the pearl grotto?
(a) a treasure map left by pirates
(b) a pearl the size of a coconut
(c) a school of sharks waiting for him
(d) the body of a drowned pearl diver

10. What happens to the three prisoners after the incident with the telescope?
(a) They are threatened with being thrown overboard.
(b) They are drugged and fall asleep.
(c) They are locked in Aronnax's room for the night.
(d) They are forbidden to go to the platform ever again.

11. What is the offer Captain Farragut makes as they search for the monster?
(a) a promotion to ensign for the first person to spot it
(b) a bottle of rum for the frist person to spot it
(c) a $2,000 reward to the first person on the frigate who spots it
(d) a write up in the newspapers about the person who spots it

12. What valuable item does Nemo take from a secret place?
(a) a crate of raw diamonds
(b) a chest full of gold ingots
(c) a box of rare black pearls
(d) a statue from Atlantis

13. What does Ned Land say he does not feel?
(a) sure that they will escape
(b) safe on this scrap heap of metal
(c) certain they know where they are
(d) happy that he has to work too hard

14. What does Conseil think Captain Nemo is?
(a) an American spy
(b) a figment of their imagination
(c) a misunderstood genius
(d) a madman

15. What does the public speculate the object is?
(a) something from outer space
(b) a sea monster like the Loch Ness dragon
(c) an island reef, a sea serpent, or a whale of unknown species
(d) a mirage, not real at all

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aronnax see in the glade of coral at the coral kingdom?

2. What does Nemo inform Aronnax?

3. What do the three men do on the island?

4. How does Aronnax find the taste of seaweed cigars?

5. After falling from the Abraham Lincoln, what is Aronnax's condition?

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